Design for the Accountants Drawing Office

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Bank of England
  - Bank of England, City of London for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, 1788-1834 (1352)
    - 1788-1793 Initial assessment of existing buildings and minor alterations (73)
      - Princes Street screen wall and offices, 1790-91 (9)

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Reference number

SM (6) volume 75/1

Purpose

Design for the Accountants Drawing Office

Aspect

6 Plan with laid out wall elevations; rough (pencil) elevation of wall and (pencil) detail of moulding

Scale

(6) bar scale

Inscribed

6 39'6", 22'2" and other dimensions given

Hand

Soane office

Notes

Drawing 6 shows one of the offices built behind the Princes Street screen wall (labelled as the Accountants Drawing Office on a plan in 1803), according to the design approved in April 1793. The drawing has pencil details for the mouldings, suggesting that it is a working drawing for finishing the interior.

The room has a central circular lantern on pendentives, between coffered segmental barrel vaults at both ends. Apsidal niches ornament the walls beneath the barrel vaults. A large segmental lunette is on the west wall, over a door that leads to a courtyard with privys. The north end of the office, to the left-hand side of the drawing, has a semicircular arched recess in the built design (SM 9/2/16, see drawing 103 in scheme 2:7).

Level

Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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